Connecticut western news., 1887-12-28
IN CONGRESS.
Various Matters of Importance in
 Both Houses.

Among the memorials presented to the Ssn-
 ate was that of H. D. Lyman Vice-President
 of the American Surety Company of New
 York, praying for the ratiticati on of the con-
 ventlon proposing an extradition treaty be-
 tween this country and Great Britain, signed
 in London, June 25th, 1886, extending the
 extradition laws in cases of embezzle-
 ment and similar crimes. The re
 markable part of the memorial,
 which was presented by,Senator Hiscock, was
 in the exhibit which accompanied it. This
 was partial list of embezzlements of persons
 who had fled to Canada. The offences, it says,
 were almost all of them committed since the
 proposed convention was signed, and most of
 them within the past year. The exhibit gives
 a list of fifty-three embezzlements. The larg-
 est noted is that of Bartholomew, the insur-
 ance man of Hartford, for S1 ,00O, 900, and the
 total sum is 3,Sio, ,570.
 In the House MT. Brumn, of Pennsylvania,
 offered preamble and resolution reciting
 that 1t is currently rep rted that the coal op-
 orators in the LehigE region are now import
 ing or about to import 2,000 Belgian miners
 under contract to take the place of the min.
 CTS now on strike in that section; that the
 striking miners have used every endcavor to
 have a settlement of the differences by arbi-
 tration, and that the operators have positively
 refused to enter into arbitration; and request Ing the President to notify the officials of the Treasury Department of these facts and urge them to special efforts to prevent the landing of the Belgian miners and to see that the law against the importation of labor
 under contract is strictly enforced.
 Special Agent Tingle, in charge of the Sea Islands of Alaska, estimates that S0, GOO seal | skins have been unlawfully taken during the past year, and on the basis of ten seals killed or mortally wounded hy these marauders for each skin they secure, the number of seals killed by them during the year is placed at 30O,0OO. He asks for thirty-ton steam yacht in which to pursue the marauders.
 Senator Saulsbury reintroduced his bill of last session to require that residence of three year, shall be necessary before an alien can | declare his intention to become a citizen of | the United States, and of two years additional ! before he shall have the right to vote or hold office. It also reqnires that applicants for l citizenship shall write their names in English I on their petitions, and further provides that I no person having the power of spe- oh shall be admitted to citizenship who cannot speak the ! English language.
 | The tariff-surplus question came up ill the Senate. First MT. Sherman had the Presl- dents message and accompanying documents referred to tho Committee on Finance, and gave notice that after the holidays he would address the Senate on the subject. Then MT. Pugh, of Alabama, offered the following and addressed the Senate in support of it: Re Sotred, That the most important and pressing duty of the present session of Congress Is to | revise and so amend existing internal tax and tariff laws to reduce the annual revenues to be collected therefrom to the necessary wants
 of the Federal Government and no more than
 it needs to pay its matured debts and discharge
 its obligations under the laws of Congress with
 out cripphng or deranging any American in- dustries or business interests connected with the subj ct of tariff taxation, or interfering g
 with the just rights of American working people, intended to be secured to them by tho incidental effect of revenue duties, to share in the joint product of the labor and capital em- ployed in the American mining and manufac- turing industries to the full measure of the difference in the cost of their labor and the labor of those engaged in similar industries in Europe.
 Resolved, That the Senate will concur in no
 joint resolution for the final adjournment of Congress until after the passage of such reme-
 dial laws are specified in the foregoing res olution.